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welcome back to the big picture i'm sorry marvin coming up in this half hour as the heat from the media grilling of herman cain intensifies his nicotine addicted campaign manager and former koch brothers mark blog as his only problem so the cain train ride to pennsylvania avenue just a two bit show of tricks and mirrors and it's a nice daily take i'll tell you why and how your public in party has to resort to voter manipulation in order to win elections.

as herman cain stumbles through trying to deny allegations of sexual assault there's also another problem looming for his so-called presidential campaign this one centers around his campaign manager mark block and on our mark block as the smoking man cain's latest campaign ad. mark block here. since january i've had the privilege of being the chief of staff to herman cain and the chief operating officer the friends are tomorrow one day closer to the white house i really believe that herman cain will put united back in the united states of america and i don't believe that i'm going to be we've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen but then america's never seen a candidate like john mccain we need you to get involved because together we could do this and we could take this country.

well that only has block a steely nicotine addicted political operative he's always been one of the dirty as players in the game for one of the cain campaign troubles if there really is a campaign going on i'm joined by adel stamp washington d.c. bureau chief with alter net adult always great to have you here rates or as herman cain might call me at the at the stand stand stand. let's go live ready for this. so so who's this guy mark block well there's three things you need to know about herman cain right is that well he's employed by david koch pretty much since two thousand and five he seems to be a guy likes to pull a fast one get away with something and he's got a really really dirty campaign manager mark block has been sort of the faeries

figure in wisconsin politics since the early two thousand i mean he he got himself in trouble paying fifteen thousand dollars fine banned from wisconsin politics banned from participating for some dirty pool he played in a two thousand and one judicial election. and three. for three years the withstand the serious stuff it is serious stuff and almost the moment that ban was up time. he was employed by david kirk's miracles for prosperity running and setting up the organization. that would have helped scott oh yes he is the man behind the scott walker campaign sean duffy the new congressman tea party congressman who was elected. a lot of the people the new people in the most constant state legislature who you know brought us the anti collective bargaining i mean this is mark but he also is involved in no voter caging and so on suppressing

them in their minority vote milwaukee as well incredible you know our taxpayer subsidizing the cam the cain campaign all of your so-called can you call it so-called campaign because i don't believe he's running i think you are right i am exactly with you know i think that what herman cain i think it surprises them how well he started to do it in iowa because i think herman cain's function was simply to sort of push the other candidates towards david koch zisha particularly on taxes and he's been succeeding in doing that when you see what the other candidates have been pushing for each word a flat tax but in terms of the tax payer issue working have is more black control these non-profits i don't see three nine profits which are barred by federal tax code and election code from participating in elections are really just your these as opposed to super pacs right and we find that this prosperity usa.

five a one c three controlled by mark block was paying the campaign expenses of the herman cain campaign and this guy does not like to travel cheap i mean he's private jets for his travel to various events yes and maybe even came up with hundred one. granted give to the congress of racial equality who surprised then invited herman cain to be their speaker at their awards dinner that's rather tragic what would happen if mark block were to pull out or drop out or be pushed out of their home in came campo this is what's going to be really interesting to see i mean i personally think he probably could have his campaign could have survived the primary season with just the sexual harassment allegations even if they do explode because it really running for proces or really running for president and it feeds that sort of right wing narrative about you know everybody's picking on me but we've got mark block there is no herman cain campaign mark block is that herman cain campaign

there are no staffers to speak there are like a couple of other people from the americans for prosperity wisconsin chapter and that's it he's got basically a few people to carry his luggage. and to book those private jet that's why i don't think he's running for president because there is no ground game there are no you know there's no campaign structure or strategy to work this is a guy who spent the better part of the last decade making a living as an inspirational speaker ryan and as an author and this kind of publicity catapulted from the five thousand dollar a whack speaking gig as a fifty thousand dollars a week. and this is the this is the herman cain retirement program that he was born forty five i believe soon as you know that is eligible or since you're the running for a fox news show i would say which is you know a million bucks a year yes you know if you're any good at it if you will serve feel good to it and yeah. yeah sean hannity two hundred eighty do you think that the media is

playing or actually why is the media playing into this cain narrative as if he why do they keep pretending he's a real candidate oh you know media lie like like things that are new and bright. shiny and unexpected i mean we talked about this before with the tea party movement that you and i wear you know sort of it was a repackaging of a new movement that's been around for ever but it looks bright and shiny and new and i think you have the same sort of thing about pain and it's sort of a counter intuitive idea of you know the the black conservative who has a message that is counter to that of liberal african-americans and you have it just it's just that he came out of nowhere and he's funny i mean i it's funny and easy this is nappy one studies is perfect so that's not to love indeed thank you so much

for dropping by great to see your very tanks for having me back we're learning a lot about the republican field and it's kind of a sad commentary on the republican field herman cain frankly not actually running for president he's running for an increase in the speaking fees and books are going to restart about newt gingrich he's not running for president he's running for an increase in speaking fees to sell more books and that's why he's got this tiffany jones he's got a payoff is what is the third one worth what we'll see first was high school teacher of the cancer but in any case i was struck there's michele bachmann she's just back wanna crazy she might be thinking that she's running for president but there's no possibility santorum he's kind of a frothy guy but not a chance really i'm not even sure what he's running for jon huntsman he could be conceivably i mean here's a guy who's actually

a serious and reasonable republican therefore reasonable and serious unavailable republican base plus he worked for obama in you know a scam. mitt romney is in the middest protection program here's the urban dictionary definition of the business protection program an analysis of deliberate strategy and a presidential campaign notably that of republican candidate mitt romney to stay in the background raising money and seeking endorsements all of voiding engagement with voters so he's the realities of the mitt as. protection program because the republican party has basically gone nuts it's been taken over by eccentric billionaires iran true believers and the media plays along with it instead of seriously discussing the issues you know the bottom line here it's time to get billionaire and corporate money out of politics we need to end the insanity of all of this stuff we need to amend the constitution to say corporations are people money isn't speech get it out move to amend or and side up.

the good the bad of the very very much committed really good andy douglas one week to go until ohio voters determine the fate of the radical anti-union bill as the five former ohio supreme court justice andy douglas is weighing in on the matter saying that s.b. five returns ohio back to the dark days before collective park. on a sunday in a safety forces had a dispute concerning wages working conditions and adequate staffing there was no way to resolve the dispute that is why we passed the collective bargaining. law has worked there have been no safety forces work stoppages in ohio since the law was

passed it would be tragic for our communities to return to those dark days that is what senate bill five if it becomes more or do. to fully protect our citizens and our police officers and firefighters senate bill five must be rejected join us polls it looks like senate bill five will be rejected let's hope anti-union republicans get the message that working people are fed up with having their rights taken away from. the bad connelly's the rights we can have the former secretary of state to the list of bush officials who are trying to rewrite history and claim credit for president obama's foreign policy accomplishments in an interview with usa today and in reference to the arab spring rice said that changing the conversation about the middle east where people now routinely talk about democratization is something that i'm very grateful for and i think we as in the bush administration had a role in that actually the bush administration played

a role in starting to brutal and long lasting wars in iraq and afghanistan to places in the middle east where people are still killing each other and not trying to build around democracy president obama proved when he went to cairo and gave his hair down these dictators teach that foreign policy objectives are best achieved with out military invasion so if there's one thing we can thank the bush in connally's or rice administration for is for showing us what not to do in the middle east and the very very ugly the loudon county republican party for some reason these virginia republicans figured it'd be a good idea to get in the holiday spirit by sending out an e-mail yesterday depicting president obama as a zombie complete with part of his skull missing and a polar hole right through said ed as an added bonus an image of house minority leader nancy pelosi that looks like she has about i bolted out of the socket that's right president united states shot through the head on a republican party official mass email the winner that went out

a week before local state elections virtually every single republican has condemned the loudon county digital mailing the republican party of virginia calling it a disgusting image. when you've gone so low that even the rest of the republican party can agree that it's disgusting then you know you've done something very. crazy alert breaking and entering just got weird according to surveillance cameras a man in indianapolis broke into a children's daycare center last week to try on girls eighteen suits and then described as five foot seven with a long black ponytail stuck into the daycare center and to be sceptical goldilocks and the three bears fashion began trying on bikini's some to large sums of small

until they finally found one that fit him just right after about ten minutes the man settled on a skimpy pink two piece shortly after he jumped over the cars set off the motion detector and quickly changed back into his street clothes and fled the scene before cops arrived and police at the daycare center do not believe anything was stolen though they wish goldie blox said they can be used bikini's with him coming up in tonight's daily take how a game of words is given republicans election after election but at the same time ruined a tradition of thoughtful political discourse. that drives the world of fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions it's completed through a bit through to be made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global missionary see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to

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a leaflet have been dropped on occupy chicago protesters by the one percent at the chicago board of trade and i said that what will define the next step the one percent takes in the aftermath of the occupy wall street movement it's not the dollar amounts in their bank accounts but rather their patriotism. the banks their one percent in chicago had a little message they wanted to get out to the ninety nine percent movement camped out on the streets below so someone at the chicago board of trade poured leaflets out the window to rain down on the demonstrators below the leaflets read we are wall street and it's our jobs to make money go ahead and continue to take us down but you're only going to hurt yourselves it's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the street anymore guess what they're going to pay yards. as we all know today that's not a threat it's a promise wall street has never had a prop taking what's not there but that was the trillions they took when the economy lou up as

a result of the housing bubble seen or the trillions more they took from the taxpayers when they demand a bailout wall street is churns other people's money and skims their vig off the top the point is it's not about how much money you make that makes you the one percent from michael moore to warren buffett there are plenty of patriotic one percenters it's about whether or not you think it's the job of the rich to give back to the country that major rich or if it's just the job of the rich you keep making more and more money. to make more money and they can spend in their lifetimes their children's rights and their grandchildren's like times or their great grandchildren's lifetimes while the nation around them deteriorates it's not about your bank account it's about your patriotism the ninety nine percent movement is the most patriotic thing happening in america let's just hope our politicians catch up and send that message home with many of you for the true face of an elitist mentality and on our facebook page gary posted well if the wall streeters

take away teaching jobs from teachers and want to worry about kids bullying classmates the wall streeters will be shaking down the children for their lunch money and bonnie said patriotism the last refuge of the scoundrel they don't get it because they already got it and they intend to keep it maybe the neither leaflets blow right back out there but it's nice way to spend your money as well said buddy you know what f.d.r. said about the group he called economic royalists he refers to them in this clip as the overprivileged. term the very aptly applies to the modern one percent today. the. economic are oh oh oh. blame. the pro the institutions of america. what they really claim. is that we seek to take away.

oh really. the just so america. free clue they overthrow. the law behind the play and the constitution but in their blindness they book guess what constitution stands for. as always or over us century in a hurry up the flag constitution. against a dictatorship rule and the all the privileges the light. and the

overprivileged alike all men f.d.r. did for my take your tape tonight if you like your comments and questions for you here on this side of the big picture. we want to know your j. esus your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page via twitter at underscore when we're in the chat room on the message board just from the blog and . also leave a message on our red line at two two five three six fifty three zero six agree disagree sound off it's all well remember that your comments made on the air. for progressives to be republicans they need to know how republicans talk luckily republicans occasionally let their lingo slip like back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when newt gingrich's gopac memo was leaked which instructed

republicans on what specific words to use when talking about other republicans and conservative policies and which words to use when talking about democrats and progressive policies the memo reads language is listed as a key mechanism of control used by a majority party we believe that you could have a significant impact on your complaint and your campaign and the way you communicate if we help the little that is why we have created this list of words and phrases when talking about republican panic campaigns newt gingrich wrote use these words commitment drene family freedom liberty passion prosperity strength and vision success he wrote next time you watch a republican actually he didn't write that i did next time or had a republican you watch a republican campaign you can't campaign and play a little drinking game with how often you hear these words he used

a game memo then lays out the words to be used when describing democratic campaigns words like czar bureaucracy coercion corruption of our in danger liberal pathetic shame taxes welfare. these may seem like trivial words they don't have an effect when it comes to political messaging words are extremely important as right wing pollster frank luntz pointed out during the health care debate back in two thousand and nine. if you call it a public option the american people are split if you call it the government option the public is overwhelmingly against it you don't like it it's a great point and i'm from now on all couldn't called the government if you could. so-called news took the bait and executive bill sammon sent out an e-mail to his team of talking heads saying friendly reminder let's not slip back into calling it the public option please use the term government run health insurance or when brevity is a concern government option whenever possible like sheep the talking heads over at

fox so-called news obeyed frank lott some self is quite a wordsmith back in two thousand and six luntz wrote a memo for republicans identifying certain words they should never say and instead offering replacement words as lunch writes in his memo sometimes it is not what you say that matters but what you don't say from today forward you are the language police from today forward these are the words never to say again and here they are this is the republican game plan actually here they are never say government instead you know rule it out and say washington never say tax reform instead say tax simplification never say estate tax instead say the death tax never say capitalism instead say free market out of this is this is the republican main is to is to is to always go in that direction never say undocumented workers instead say illegal aliens never say drilling for oil instead say exploring for energy never

skate school choice instead say opportunity in education and never say health care choice instead say the right to choose it get it the this is very very systematic manipulation of language in the american political discourse this is the republican game plan laid out. and this is the only way they can win elections this and disenfranchising people keeping people from voting and voter id laws and things like that but basically this by boiling down often complex issues where the right answer can only be found through rigorous debate and turning them into quick easy to remember catch phrases and buzz words let's eliminate the dead debate around how much people like paris hilton should pay a state taxes stead just call it a dreaded death tax let's eliminate the debate over how we should handle

undocumented immigrants and instead dehumanised them by calling them illegal aliens forget about debating the safety of deepwater oil drilling after b.p. gulf disaster now oil companies are just exploring for energy. you know the sad thing much of this is worked and sure enough we've stopped having rational debate in this country emotional words are now used to grab people's attention and transform their minds and it's largely these little sound bites and commercials on t.v. replace the role of debate among the electorate president obama has boiled down to a socialist with little discussion of what a socialist really is i doubt most americans know rich people are called job creators with little discussion about how jobs are really created new tax plans like nine nine nine or praised for their simplicity rather than either their effectiveness or their just plain old flat out stupidity when french political

thinker alexis de tocqueville ventured to the united states nearly nine hundred centuries eight hundred thirty four as i recall to observe firsthand what life is like a new democratic nation he made this observation which he wrote his book democracy in america the greatest of america lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation but rather in her ability to repair fault it's. throughout history our nation has repaired our faults through debate through an informed electorate making the right decisions but in a scorched earth bid to win elections republicans have destroyed that american tradition and replaced it with political manipulation and until we bring back real debate until the corporate media calls out republican talking points and you and i call our people who throw phrases around like job creators illegal aliens and we

frankly won't be able to solve the complex problems facing our nation we're americans and start acting like americans and demanding that our politicians and most importantly our media treat us like the well informed citizenry that thomas jefferson patient. as the big picture for tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our website to thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and. you can also check out our two you tube channel through and so it's all part of our entire show is also available as a free video podcast on i tunes and we have a free time our but i phone and i pad app the app store it also sends feedback and twitter atomosphere are on facebook a tom underscore a watch message boards telephone line over the phone. and no forget democracy begins with you get out there and get active tag your it occupies something you see in the.

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